Dumbheart: A Get Fuzzy Collection

Laugh out loud funny, Darby Conley always nails the characters of Bucky and Satchel perfectly.

Great book. If you're not in the greatest of moods, sit down and read only a couple of pages and you'll forget what you were upset about. These three are a riot.

Conley has yet another collection of work as good as before. He is maintaining the character's personalities and the wit and sarcasm is first rate. This is a good read. The "quality control" of this whole strip is very well-maintained.

Some of us who've been reading Fuzzy since its inception tend to complain that it's not quite as funny as it once was, but looking at the collections, it's like a shift from A+ to A- at worst. This one "trends in a cat direction," as Satchel tells Rob at one point, with great appearances by Mac Manc McManx, Foodar and others, and ends with a kind of fashion war between Bucky and Fungo the ferret. Though there are a few sub-par weeks, the artwork is unfailingly expressive and nuanced as in no other strip since Bloom County - a friend who doesn't even read the comics broke up while looking at the cover. One wishes that Rob would get a girlfriend - which has done wonders for Garfield - at least to give Satchel and Bucky a new bone of contention, but that's in Mr. C's hands.

Despite being a daily "Get Fuzzy" reader, I always purchase the collections. The antics of Bucky, Satchel, and Rob never get boring, and I am frequently delighted to rediscover a story line that I had forgotten.